Digital by Default

Digital by Default

The Hard Thing About the Hard Thing About Hard Things

I’ve just finished ‘The Hard Thing About Hard Things’ by Ben Horowitz. Now Horowitz has had an amazing career first as a startup founder and CEO and probably more prominently as a venture capitalist with his long term business associate Marc Andreessen. They have been early investors in Facebook, Foursquare, GitHub, Pinterest, and Twitter amongst…

January 31, 2016
Top ten #jukesiejobs 31/01/16

January is often an interesting time for interesting jobs to get advertised and this year that has certainly been the case in my little corner of the digital world. The CPS job is a real doozy and the Dyson one is a bit of a wild card but intriguing. Have at them. Director of Digital…

January 31, 2016
The Resilience of the Bold

This week Janet wrote a wonderful blogpost that struck a nerve far and wide (at least in my corner of Twitter!) The post was a follow up to the session she ran at #ukgc16 and was on the topic of boldness and in particular whether that was a missing (explicit) value for the Civil Service.…

January 30, 2016
CorridorCamp16

aka #UKGC16 I have a little confession. I am terrible at BarCamps. Really bad at them. I have attended more than my share of them over the years and 100% believe they are brilliant, mind-altering, status quo challenging necessities for our community. I am just rubbish at them. Saturday was my sixth Govcamp I think — I…

January 24, 2016
whither Web of Words

I’ve been circling around an idea for an event about blogs and blogging for a couple of years now. I wrote about it back in early 2014 and despite some shenanigans have managed to hold on to the domain webofwords.org for even longer. 2015 seemed like a bit of a comeback for individuals publishing on…

January 22, 2016